Post-Shave Skincare Products

Make Your At-Home Shave Barbershop-Worthy With These Products

The best way to avoid ingrown hairs and razor burn is to take your pre-shave routine seriously. Use a pre-shave oil to soften your beard and always use a fresh razor blade. Don’t be in a mad rush. Take your time and shave in the direction your hair grows. After that, if you end up with razor burn, bumps or ingrown hairs, try these post-shave face soothers. These problem solvers will calm down red inflamed skin, shrink bumps and get your skin back in shape. Get relief with one of these post-shave fix-its utilizing the latest in skincare innovations combined with soothing botanicals and natural antiseptics. Most of these can be used as a spot treatment twice a day or slathered on daily after you shave to prevent future burn.

Grooming Lounge The Shavior

Grooming Lounge

The Shavior from Grooming Lounge takes a multi-prong approach to soothing your skin. It contains glycolic acid to exfoliate the dead skin that can trap oil and bacteria that can cause bumps. Allantoin and chamomile soothes while Bisabolol brings down the inflammation. This problem solver also has moisturizing ingredients, antioxidants and a touch of sun protection that will improve the overall good health of your skin.

Lab Series Skincare for Men Ultra Razor Burn Relief

Lab Series

This lightweight soothing lotion is formulated for all skin types and relieves inflamed and irritated skin immediately on contact. It cools down redness and restores moisture to the traumatized area. Apply this non-greasy lotion with your fingertips in a circular motion.

Kiehls Ultimate Man Razor Bump Relief

Kiehls

Expect your girlfriend to steal this soothing formula from Kiehls. Ginger root extract soothes and absorbs oil, while willow herb heals with anti-microbial properties. While inflamed, you can apply twice a day, and when your skin calms down you can use daily to keep the redness in check.

Neutrogena Men Razor Defense Post Shave Lotion

Neutrogena

You don’t have to go bankrupt getting your hands on a quality skincare remedy. Check your local drugstore for this multivitamin post-shave formula that will calm redness. Your beard and skin will be softer thanks to an added conditioner that will make it more comfortable the next time you shave.

Clubman Pinaud Styptic Pencil

Clubman

This is an old school trick to stop nicks and cuts from bleeding and eventually getting infected. Your grandfather probably used a styptic pencil to seal off a shaving nick and hinder bacteria from making it worse. Clubman Pinaud also makes travel size pencils. Add one to your travel kit for when shaving accidents happen on the road.

Urth Post-Shave Elixir

Urth

This powerful razor-burn-fighting formula comes complete with herbal anti-inflammatory elements, along with salicylic, lactic acid, and witch hazel for disinfecting properties. It has a light, creamy texture with a slight sting that means it’s working.

Tweezerman Ingrown Hair/Splintertweeze

Tweezerman

Sometimes you just need to get in there and surgically remove the ingrown hair. Open up your pores in a hot shower and tweeze in the direction of the hair growth; then get rid of the bump-causing culprit and treat with one of the post-shave products.

Zirh Erase Aftershave Tonic

Zirh

This multitasking post-shave tonic moisturizes and enhances collagen production. With chamomile, cucumber, grapefruit, linden and rose, this treatment gets the red out and reduces bumps but also firms up your skin and fight wrinkles. Try it with Zirh Soothe-Gel and double your relief efforts.

(Malin + Goetz) Ingrown Hair Cream

(Malin + Goetz)

Along with natural botanicals and glycolic and salicylic acids, vitamin B5 is added to this potion to promote skin repair. This cream calms shaving-related redness and irritation but works equally well after waxing. Don’t hesitate to try this post-shaving remedy on your body as well as your face.